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Humanities - Prescribed and Recommended Books: Public Policy: PTS2A11/POL2AA2

This LibGuide provides the titles of Prescribed and Recommended books for all the Faculty of Humanities. Links are provided to the catalogue record of books as well as links to the online availability of books.

Prescribed Readings

Lecture 1: What is Public Policy?

Lecture 2: Theories of public policy making

Lecture 3: Policy making stages/cycle I

Anderson, J. E. (2015) Public Policymaking. Stamford, CT

VLEBooks

Kraft, Michael E. and Scott R. Furlong (2018) Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, 6th Ed

Kraft, Michael E. and Scott R. Furlong (2018) Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, 6th Ed

Prescribed Readings

Lecture 4 Policymaking stages/cycle II

Maseng, Jonathan O. (2014) State and Non-State Actors in South African Public Policy. Africa Institute of South Africa, Briefing No. 107, March 2014

Gumede, Vusi (2008) Public Policy Making in Post-apartheid South Africa: A Preliminary Perspective. Africanus, 38 (2), pages 7-23

Lecture 5: Policymaking stages/cycle III

Prescribed Readings

Lecture 6: Policy Analysis

Kraft, Michael E. and Scott R. Furlong (2021) Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, 6th Ed

Bester, Angela (2009) Evaluation of Public Policies in South Africa: Governance, Independence and Credibility. Issues Paper presented at the UNDP Conference on National Evaluation Capacity. Casablanca, Morocco, 15-17 December 2009

Lecture 7: Why Do Certain Public Policies Fail?